The Collaborative International Dictionary
Butyric \Bu*tyr"ic\, a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived from, butter.
Butyric acid, C3H7.CO2H, an acid found in butter; an oily, limpid fluid, having the smell of rancid butter, and an acrid taste, with a sweetish aftertaste, like that of ether. There are two metameric butyric acids, called in distinction the normal- and iso-butyric acid. The normal butyric acid is the one common in rancid butter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context rare English) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of butter 2 (context organic chemistry English) Of, pertaining to, or derived from butyric acid or any of the isomeric univalent radicals of formula C3H7CO2-
WordNet
adj. relating to or producing butyric acid
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "butyric".
Although it has long been known that pepsin with acetic acid has the power of digesting albuminous compounds, it appeared advisable to ascertain whether acetic acid could be replaced, without the loss of digestive power, by the allied acids which are believed to occur in the secretion of Drosera, namely, propionic, butyric, or valerianic.
We have also seen that butyric acid, which is much more efficacious than propionic or valerianic acids, digests with pepsin at the higher temperature less than a third of the fibrin which is digested at the same temperature by hydrochloric acid.
I believe that this, or a mixture of acetic and butyric acids, were present in the liquid.
The quantities of propionic, butyric, and valerianic acids respectively which are required to neutralise as much base as 6.
Of this liquid four quantities were taken which were severally acidulated with hydrochloric, propionic, butyric, and valerianic acids, in the proportions above indicated.
This causes skin breakage and the leakage of fermentation byproducts rich in butyric acids.
Every time you take a step, something like two hundred and fifty billion molecules of butyric acid pass through the sole of your shoe.
Under the combined action of bacteria and the digestive juices disgorged by the larvae, the corpse begins to liquefy and becomes a ferment of butyric and ammoniac reactions.
Initial decay, putrefaction, black putrefaction, butyric putrefaction, and dry decay.
There were motives in it of fats, butyric acid, alcohols, mineral oils, heated rubber, and singed leather, to a broadly-handled accompaniment of charred feathers, lightened by suggestions of crisped flesh.
Nursing infants have a peculiar sourish smell, caused by the butyric acid of the milk, while bottle-fed children smell like strong butter.
The wards containing women and children are perfumed with butyric acid, while those containing men are influenced by the presence of alkalies like ammonia.
Just a harmless mixture of materials like butyl mercaptan, butyric acid, methanethiol, skatole, cadaverine, putrescine .
Just a harmless mixture of materials like butyl mercaptan, butyric acid, methanethiol, skatole, cadaverine, putrescine.